Hodgdon Homestead, ME
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.2 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Hodgdon Homestead serves about 32 people through 13 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Aroostook County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0094503; phone on file: 207-532-6498. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (4.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hodgdon Homestead is 17.4 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 5 ppb |
| 2023 | 17.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 4 ppb |
| 2017 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.3 ppb |
Against other Maine systems
Of the 358 Maine systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.5 ppb; 2 are over 15 ppb right now and 40 have gone over at some point. Hodgdon Homestead's 5.2 ppb sits at the 89th percentile in Maine and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
37 other systems share Aroostook County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hodgdon Homestead. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Presque Isle Utilities District | 6,128 | 1.5 ppb |
| Houlton Water Company | 4,735 | 3.4 ppb |
| Caribou Utilities District | 3,943 | 0 (not detected) |
| Madawaska Water District | 2,738 | 0 (not detected) |
| Van Buren Water District | 2,190 | 2.7 ppb |
| Fort Fairfield Utilities District | 2,025 | 1.8 ppb |
| Fort Kent W & W Department | 1,578 | 1.9 ppb |
| Mars Hill And Blaine Water Company | 1,500 | 3.4 ppb |
| Limestone Water & Sewer District | 875 | 2.6 ppb |
| Ashland Water & Sewer District | 713 | 2.3 ppb |
Next steps for Hodgdon, ME
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hodgdon, ME may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Hodgdon Homestead whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.